More research needed into side-effects of chemo and hormone therapy

You have Plenty of ammunition in this thread alone, @kmakm to 'load your guns' for the questions tonight.  Good Luck.  Try & cover as many as you can - but specifically the aches & pains that continuously plagues us.  And the worrying thing is - that once we STOP the medication, how do we know we will go back to 'pre treatment status'!   I am very afraid that I will be stuck with what I have, forever - even after going off the tabs eventually!!     I hope it goes - but I fear not.

I think I can say for everyone  -  that NONE of us expected to get 24/7 sick as a result of our medications once the active treatment had finished. 

One of the main beefs that is repeated over & over re the side effects - is the inflammation that has occurred in many of our joints.  It affects us 24/7 - ie it is CHRONIC.  It affects our daily activities (unable to do them) as well as our sleeping hours (just can't!)  

This chart shows exactly how inflammation affects other parts of the body, irrelevant of where the actual 'pain' is.  Continued inflammation puts stress on every other part of the body!  It can also mask other 'symptoms', or create new ones.  Yet continual taking of anti inflammatories is also bad for the body and can lead to other major malfunctions in the body, including the need for 'uppies & downies'.